Clark Shepard

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About Clark Shepard

I am a results-oriented business professional with proven abilities in Product Development and Test Engineering. I have experience articulating our customer's technical requirements for our product's definition, design, test and manufacturing. I am adept at working with cross functional teams from Marketing, Applications, Design and all stages of Final Manufacturing to consistently meet the customer's expectations. My strongest skills include the analysis of product performance, test hardware specification and verification, packaging definition and first prototype delivery. My work experiences has spanned several different responsibilities, but they are all tied together by a common thread: utilizing and developing many different software and hardware tools and techniques to detect, diagnose, improve and anticipate yield, reliability and quality problems. I am a distinguished industry expert with published papers and awarded patents focusing on product reliability, quality and design for test. I am dedicated to ongoing support for product cost improvement through review, implementation and data analysis of custom test features that enable yield analysis and result in improving profit margins.Specialties: Core Competencies: Technical utilization of Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) to evaluate complex, high performance digital devices which include high speed serial, parallel, custom and industry standard interfaces. Strong background in design definition and use of device feature support for semiconductor test, debug and yield improvement.